sectarian violence

QUETTA, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- A group of gunmen attacked workers along a road in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday before executing ten of them, police said on Friday. A previously unknown militant ... Read more...

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) -- The 15 members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council (UNSC) on late Tuesday strongly condemned a wave of terrorist attacks across Iraq over the weekend that ... Read more...

Islamabad, Sep 2 (IANS) Interior Minister Rehman Malik has told the Afghan government to stop terrorists from entering Pakistan, a media report said Sunday.Stressing that terrorists had again started ... Read more...

Islamabad, March 10 (IANS) Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has stressed the importance of dialogue to solve the deteriorating law and order situation in Gilgit- Baltistan, the Dawn News reported.Malik ... Read more...

Washington, March 3 (IANS) To mark the 10th anniversary of Gujarat communal riots, a Democrat lawmaker has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives urging the state government ... Read more...

Washington, Nov 10 (IANS) Condemning all violence directed at religious, ethnic and other minorities, the United States has asked Pakistan to bring to justice those involved in gunning down three ... Read more...

QUETTA, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- At least seven people were killed after a group of gunmen stormed a transportation company in western Pakistan, local media reported Friday.The attack occurred against a group ... Read more...

New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The Congress said Thursday that the Gujarat government had deliberately destroyed intelligence records related to the 2002 riots in the state."It is astounding that ... Read more...

Cairo, May 8 (IANS) Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has called an emergency cabinet meeting following sectarian clashes in Cairo that left nine people dead, Xinhua reported.Apart from the dead, ... Read more...

Islamabad, Mar 25(ANI): At least eight people have been killed and fifteen others abducted as gunmen attacked vehicles carrying Shia Muslims through a volatile northwest Pakistan district on Friday, according to officials.Some ... Read more...

Abuja, Dec 27 (IANS) The toll in the Christmas eve bomb blasts that rocked Nigeria's restive Jos city has reached at least 80, the authorities said Monday.According to Xinhua, the number of ... Read more...

Abuja/Lagos, Dec 25 (IANS) Twenty-nine people were killed in a series of bomb blasts and attacks on churches in Nigeria on Christmas eve, officials said Saturday.According to Xinhua, at least 23 people ... Read more...

Lagos, Dec 25 (IANS) At least 23 people were killed in a series of bomb blasts that rocked Nigeria's restive Jos city on the Christmas eve, a local hospital official said Saturday.Another ... Read more...

New Delhi/London, Dec 18 (IANS) A diplomatic cable sent by the US embassy here to Washington says America can learn a lot from the Indians' tolerance for all faiths, according to whistleblowing ... Read more...

Washington, Oct 19 (ANI): Pakistan has said Iran has no justification for pursuing nuclear weapons, and that it should embrace overtures from the United States.Strongly criticizing Iran's controversial nuclear program, Pakistan ... Read more...

By Padmanabhan SubramaniamFaizabad, Sep. 25 (ANI): Members of the Muslim community here offered special prayers for a favourable verdict on Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.This special congregation on the occasion of Friday prayers was ... Read more...